WHISPERER

(Feature Film, In Development)

An old wooden door set in a stone wall, surrounded by lush green bushes and climbing vines with thick, twisted trunks.

“I could tell that I was at the gateway of a region half-bewitched through the piling-up of unbroken time-accumulations; a region where old, strange things have had a chance to grow and linger because they have never been stirred up.”
H.P. Lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness

Project Summary

WHISPERER

(Feature Film, In Development)

Format: Feature Film / Genre: Cosmic Horror / Comps: The Thing, The Orphanage

Director: Ryan Mackfall. Producer: Kingsley Marshall. Writers: Lachlan Marks & Ryan Mackfall

Based on the H. P. Lovecraft story The Whisperer in Darkness.

Synopsis
Penny, a science student at a university in the 1930s, receives a strange recording from her estranged adoptive father Henry, his first contact with her for several years. After taking the recording to her professor Albert, she discovers her father’s belief that he has captured the sound of unnatural forces in the woods surrounding his property. When Albert doesn’t return from a visit to Henry, Penny returns to her childhood home to come to terms with a dark, unfathomable power that will reshape her forever.

A story centered around a fear of the other, the dangers of entitlement, the corrosive nature of obsession with status, and the question of what we owe to the generation that precedes us, and those that follow.

A dimly lit, vintage-style office room with wooden furniture, framed paintings, and a fireplace. A window with blinds partially open allows natural light to enter. The room has bookshelves, an antique clock, and classic chairs.
A narrow, winding country road at dusk or dawn with wet pavement, flanked by dark bushes, with a few light clouds in a dusky sky, and utility poles on one side of the road.
A dark tunnel created by intertwining branches of trees on either side, with the branches forming a natural arch overhead, illuminated faintly at the entrance.